From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, zef@cektek.net,
"bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org"
<bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 6401] New: tg3 hardware address issue
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:21:44 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1145305304.3677.4.camel@rh4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060417141715.30afbdd8.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 14:17 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Right now I am using the tg3.c contained in linus's git tree with a 2.6.15
> kernel because this driver version (3.56) seems to be least broken, or atleast
> hides it best.
The reason it hides it best is because the is_valid_ether_addr() is
somewhat broken in 2.6.15. tg3 continues to load despite the invalid MAC
address of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff.
Please send the output of lspci -vvvxxx -s0:3:0.0 and lspci -vvvxxx -
s0:4:0.0. Thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-17 22:02 UTC|newest]
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2006-04-17 21:17 Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 6401] New: tg3 hardware address issue Andrew Morton
2006-04-17 20:21 ` Michael Chan [this message]
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